Five heads and hand
Draughtsman: Bloemaert, Abraham
From left to right, top to bottom: female head, three-quarters left with hood, eyes downcast; female head looking down, profile perdu to left; female head looking down, profile perdu to left; faint outline study of a hand; female head with headdress, full-face tilted to right, eyes downcast; youthful head with turban tilted to left, looking upwards.
History note: Thomas Dawson, Baron Dartrey (1725-1813) [Bookplate]; ?Richard Thomas Dawson; William Esdaile; C. Fairfax Murray, sold Sotheby's, 2-3 December 1920, lot 156, bt. Reader; / Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, 30 April 1937, lot 22, bt. Colnaghi for Sir Bruce Ingram (£90.0.0)
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1963) by Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir
Brown ink
Brown wash
White bodycolour
Graphite
Support
composed of
laid paper
Height 186 mm
Width 146 mm
Leaf
Height 397 mm
Width 301 mm
Drawing : Pen and brown ink with graphite underdrawing, brown wash and a trace of white bodycolour, surrounded by ruled black ink line, on laid paper, stuck to album leaf which has been cut in order to show the verso of the support
Accession number: PD.166-1963.f.41
Primary reference Number: 81426
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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